Simple and easy laddu recipe made from semolina, gram flour, ghee, and powdered sugar. This ladoo recipe is from the region of Maharashtra. People usually make it during the festival like diwali or ganesh chaturthi. As you know that ladoo is Lord Ganesha’s second most favorite food after the modak. This can be offered to god during the Ganpati festival.
Ingredients3 + 3 tablespoons Ghee (clarified butter) semi-solid
½ cup Sooji (rava or semolina)
1 tablespoons Cashew nuts broken
1 tablespoon Raisins
½ cup Besan (gram flour)
2 tablespoons Milk
⅓ cup Powdered sugar (Confectioner’s sugar or icing sugar) (tagar or boora)
¼ teaspoon Green cardamom seeds powder
Method* Heat 3 tablespoons ghee in a pan on MEDIUM-LOW heat.
* Once it gets hot, add sooji. Mix well.
* Add cashews and raisins.
* Roast the sooji with stirring constantly till it changes its color slightly. You will get a nice aroma of roasted sooji. It took me 7-8 minutes. Make sure that heat is on medium-low.
* Remove it to plate.
* In the same pan, heat remaining 3 tablespoons of ghee. Again keep the heat on medium-low. Once hot add besan. Mix well and keep roasting with stirring constantly.
* At the beginning as you mix, you will think that ghee is not enough, but do not add any extra. It is fine. It will lumpy at the start.
* As the besan gets roasted, it starts to ooze out the ghee. it will pasty and smooth unlike lumpy texture before. It took me 6-7 minutes.
* Add roasted sooji back to the pan with besan.
* As soon as you mix it, it will runny and thin. Cook for 1-2 minutes.
* Now add milk. As you stir it, it will become very frothy and bubbly.
* Keep cooking until it becomes thick. It took me only 2 minutes.